The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-22
GRAND ARMY ROSTER.

| Arrangements for Registration of the veter-
ans-A Complete Directory to Be Prepared.
st. Louis Post Dispatch
The committee registration and roster,
Louis Grund, chairman, to-day sent out requests
to the various department mmauders to send
to the headquarters of the Grand Army prior to
Sept. 10. list of veterans in their departments
who Will attend the encampment. with their adj
OF blanks on which this information is to
be supplied. Each department commander will
send one of these blanks to each post his uris-
dlctlon The adjutant of the post will fill in the
names of the men who will attend the encamp
ment. the command in which each served,
his present residence, the post to which he be-
encampment These blanks having been
filled out will be returned to the
Department. commander, who will send
them to headquarters in ST. Louis. When they
are received here they will be classified by de-
partments and alphabetically entered in a series
OF books forming directory at headauarters.
There Will be about seventy five of these books.
Iney Will form a complete roster of veterans in
the city during the encampment. This will be
a convenience in more ways than one In the
nrst place 1t Will enable the committee to IND
any veteran in the city who is wanted for any
purpose. This will be particular ad
vantage in the distribution of letters.
There will have to be branch post
Office established at headquarters, and letters
will be classified and sent to the different hotels
and to the commanders OF the different camps
for distribution. Comrades will do we'll to leave
their addresses with their people at home. as 1t
will save time and trouble A letter addressed
to an illinois veteran in camp might be adj
dressed, for Instance. Lyon Park" Care
Illinois Camp or merely ''of Illinois" Proba-
bly, one-half the letters and kilograms received
will be addressed "Grand Encamptment ST.
Louis" or 'care General Executive Com
mttee"
In the second place the directory at head
quarters will be convenience in bringing old
by side during the might stay in the city
all through sncampment week and pever meet
If they trusted to the ordinary means of com
munication. The directory. however. will
afford means of communication. II Bill
Smith wants to know if Jack Robinson, of the
old Seventh Ohio Artillery Corps is in the
to request the Information of the eentlemanly
and efficient clerk in charge of the directory at
headquarters and he will know. not before he
can say Jack Robinson" but very shortly after
he says it. To render the directory still
accurate each commander will be requested to
report on arrival the names of the men who
accompany his post and they will be checked off
the list at headquarters.
One of the features OF the tr;ennial conclave
last fall was the interchange of cards by the
gallant Knights in attendance. These gentle
men We'd with each other in the elaborateness of
the designs on their pasteboards. and then they
wth their brother in Tha sa
production of card-cases and the interchange
of cards. This act became SO purely mechanical
toward the end of conoave week that Knights
meeting without an Introduction the street
in the cars silently and listlessly snapped cards
and stored away the fruit of the interchange
without even examining the name it. The
veterans are preparing for similar interchange
of courtesies. Local committeeman have pro-
vided themselves with pasteboard decked
with designs in variegated hues appropri
ate to the occasion. Red is the
color. Some cards bear the &c.
A. r." in running script across the upper
ner. Others have the same letters in picturesque
monogram in red, blue and silver Some have
the crossed flags or cannon, the Grand Army
badge or the familiar canteen. Others have a
siekly family group, consisting of gay soldier
boy, with extraordinarily clean suit of
clothes and an impossible musket. returning to
the arms of a blue-faced woman with yellow
baby in her arms. The card fiend will be out
in force during the encampment.